The Ontario Ministry of Education spends somewhere between $100 and $300 million on professional development (PD) per year (as an FYI, this is a reasoned estimate using ChatGPT and Google) - regardless of the exact figure, those boundaries represent a lot of money, the type of money that lets someone buy a drink, chips, AND cookies with their Subway 6-inch Cold Cut Combo without even thinking about it. And to be clear, I firmly believe that allocating provincial government do

We’re in the thick of exams and in the years since COVID I’ve observed the system’s deliberate attempt to “de-escalate” the anxiety created by exams. I find it disappointing that instead of coaching our students to respond to stress so they can rise to the occasion, they’ve elected to “neuter” exams by completely replacing them with culminating projects or reducing difficulty by meaningfully decreasing the volume of testable content. Should exams be the only type of culminati

The multitude of relevant skills learned by participating in the classroom apply across so many career paths The decreased relevance of traditional educational models is largely rooted in the curricula’s seeming lack of direct applicability to modern day jobs. We even see a lot of figureheads, some more prominent than others, criticizing traditional education as a relevant conduit to success. I think many of these pundits are missing the point. School is not just about learn